Rosselkhoznadzor / News

Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance

Information system ARGUS

In the period from December 4 till December 5, 2017 the
talks between the technical specialists of the Rosselkhoznadzor and the
representatives of the State Service for Food Safety of the Ministry of
Agriculture of the Republic of Armenia on implementation of the electronic
veterinary certification in mutual trade between the Republic of Armenia and
the Russian Federation took place in Yerevan. The Russian party was led by
Deputy Head of the Directorate for International Cooperation and Veterinary
Control of Export/Import and Transportation of the Rosselkhoznadzor Maxim Tsukanov.
The Rosselkhoznadzor demonstrated the Rosselkhoznadzor information systems FGIS
“Argus” and FGIS “Mercury”. The representatives of the Service also elaborated
on the advantages of using the systems.

The working meeting of the Rosselkhoznadzor senior management with the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of the Republic of Serbia was held on November 16, 2017.

Within the framework of the activity aimed at the
implementation of electronic veterinary certification conducted by the
Rosselkhoznadzor and SERNAPESCA the possibility to receive electronic veterinary
certificates for salmonid fish products bound for Eurasian Economic Union consignees
in XML format by means of GIS ARGUS is now implemented within the
Rosselkhoznadzor information system.

Within the framework of the activity aimed at the implementation of electronic veterinary certification conducted by the Rosselkhoznadzor and the Ministry of Economy, Agriculture and Innovations of the Netherlands in order to increase the effectiveness of measures for preventing fraud and import of goods which do not comply with the prescribed safety requirements for goods subject to official veterinary surveillance to the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union the possibility to search and view the following import electronic veterinary certificates issued in the Netherlands for products bound for Russian consignees will be implemented in ARGUS.TU, ARGUS.PVKP and ARGUS.UVN subsystems on November 1, 2017

On July 12-13, 2016 the FGBI “Federal Center for Animal Health” subordinated to the Rosselkhoznadzor received a delegation from the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Nature of the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs (NVWA) and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Belarus for participating in the seminar on integration of veterinary e-certification system of the Rosselkhoznadzor with that of the third countries.

In the framework of the implementation of the working plan
between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Chili in the sphere of
electronic certification of livestock products, fish and seafood the technical
specialists of the Rosselkhoznadzor performed integration between GIS “Argus”
and the Chilean information system. Veterinary e-certificates for pork and pork
offal intended for Russian consumers are transferred in a test mode from the
information system of the Republic of Chili to GIS “Argus” at the present
moment.

A delegation from the Finnish Food Safety Authority (EVIRA)
visited the FGBI “ARRIAH” subordinated to the Rosselkhoznadzor on December
15-16, 2015 to take part in a seminar on integration of veterinary e-certification
system of the Rosselkhoznadzor with that of the third countries.

The negotiations were held in Moscow and were devoted to
food and biological safety issues during reciprocal supplies of regulated
products and to communication between the Rosselkhoznadzor and the Ministry of
Agriculture of Belarus. When discussing traceability of animal products
imported to Belarus Vasily Pivovar noted that the Belarusian veterinary
services were ready to implement the Rosselkhoznadzor’s “Mercury” system of
preliminary notifications on the regulated products to control the consignments
sent to importers of Belarus and Russia.